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Larsen, what is the major cause of injury or death in overseas programs?

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Larsen, what is the major cause of injury or death in overseas programs?

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Mr. Larsen. I think the major cause of student injury/death in overseas programs is traffic accidents. At least the data that I have seen covering the last 10 years would indicate that would be true. Mr. Roemer. And what is second or third cause? Do you have any kind of listing, or an enumeration of what contributes to these problems? Mr. Larsen. I honestly don’t have that data, and data collection is something that we as a profession are trying to address. In my experience in the programs that we run around the world, the students who have been injured, and thank God we have had no deaths during my tenure at Beaver, have by and large been the victims of poor judgment on their own part, either in conjunction with operating an automobile or in conjunction with over consumption of alcohol. Mr. Roemer. So in breaking those kinds of statistics down, in enumerating that as the number one cause of injury and death, you would also say that a majority of those deaths or injuries are due to the

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